Thursday, May 18, 2017

Yesterday, on the Internet chat forum4chan, an individual who goes by the alias ofAnonymous (ID:rhotYJAg)claimed to be a surgery resident at Washington Hospital Center who had attended to Seth Rich — the 27-year-0ld Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer who leaked thousands of damaging DNC emails toWikiLeaks.

Rich was shot in the early morning hours (around4 a.m.) on Sunday, July 10, in a residential area of Washington, D.C. Although police say Rich was the victim of a “random burglary,” his killer(s) left behind Rich’s wallet, watch and cell phone.

Unless Anonymous comes forth to reveal his/her identity, there is no way for us to know if Anonymous is who he/she claims to be. However, as you will read for yourself,I find Anonymous to be credible because of the display of medical knowledge and use of medical shorthand terminology.

This is what Anonymous said:

Seth Rich was shot twice in the back.

He sustained a “small injury” to his liver and “several small bowel injuries” — none of which was fatal.

He was taken to the operating room, where his injuries were treated.

He was then moved to ICU (Intensive Care Unit) where he received blood transfusion. He was stable, his blood pressure normal.

8 hours after Rich arrived at the hospital, the place “swarmed” with law enforcement officers. Everyone, except the attending physician and a few nurses, was kicked out of the ICU. There were no visiting hours, which is abnormal for ICU.

That morning, Anonymous and the other doctors were instructed not to make rounds (visits) on “the VIP that came in last night” (Seth Rich).

When Rich died, no one other than the attending physician was allowed to see him. There was no code alert or call for acardiopulmonaryresuscitationteam. Although Anonymous was with a patient in the next room, he/she was blocked from attending to Rich.

At the time, Anonymous couldn’t understand why the patient Rich was treated that way and thought the whole thing to be “fishy”. Later, when he found out that the patient was Seth Rich, Anonymous “was terrified”.

Here’s a screenshot of Anonymous’ post:

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4chan deletes its contents at the end of each day, but the thread on which Anonymous had posted was brieflyarchived, which enabled me to copy what Anonymous wrote (see below) before the archived thread was removed.

4th year surgery resident here who rotated at WHC (Washington Hospital Center) last year, it won’t be hard to identify me but I feel that I shouldn’t stay silent.

Seth Rich was shot twice, with 3 total gunshot wounds (entry and exit, and entry). He wastaken to the OR emergently [sic] where we performed an exlap and found a small injury to segment 3 of the liverwhich was packedand several small bowel injuries(pretty common for gunshotsto the backexiting the abdomen)which we resected~12cm of bowel and left him in discontinuity (didn’t hook everything back up) with the intent of performing a washout in the morning.He did not have any major vascular injuries otherwise.I’ve seen dozens of worse cases than this which survived andnothing about his injuries suggested to me that he’d sustained a fatal wound.

Note:“OR”means operating room; “exlap” refers toexploratory laparotomy— is a surgical operation where the abdomen is opened and the abdominal organs examined for injury or disease. It is the standard of care in various blunt and penetrating trauma situations in which there may be multiple life-threatening injuries; “resected” means cut off or remove.

In the meantimehe was transferred to the ICU and transfused 2 units of bloodwhen his post-surgery crit came back ~20.He was stable and not on any pressors, and it seemed pretty routine.About 8 hours after he arrived we were swarmed by LEOsand pretty mucheveryone except the attending and a few nurses was kicked out of the ICU(disallowing visiting hours-normally every odd hour, eg1am,3am, etc-is not something we do routinely).It was weird as hell.At turnoverthat morning we were instructed not to roundon the VIP that came in last night (that’s exactly what the attending said, and no one except for me and another resident had any idea who he was talking about).

No one here was allowed to see Seth except for my attending when he died. No code was called. I rounded on patients literally next door but was physically blocked from checking in on him. I’ve never seen anything like it before, and while I can’t say 100% that he was allowed to die,I don’t understand why he was treated like that.Take it how you may, /pol/, I’m just one low level doc.Something’s fishythough, that’sfor sure.

No transfusion was done in trauma; the massive transfusion protocol was started because he was hypotensive on arrival but by the time the cooler (4u PRBC, 2u FFP) was ready we were on the way to the OR and honestly I don’t remember if he got any of it beforehand;he responded well to just IVF resuscitation so we went ahead with the surgeryany just ended up giving him 2 units afterwards (the crit we got in trauma was returned just after we left and was low, ~24 IIRC but it wasn’t communicated to us… teamwork fail for sure but that can happen when we’re rushing to the OR)

Note: “hypotensive” means abnormally low blood pressure.

As for the rest of the meds? You’d have to ask anesthesia I guess. He didn’t need anything from us in the ICU except a propofol/fentanyl drip to maintain sedation while intubated but that’s pretty par for the course. The important part was thathe was hemodynamically stable and not requiring pressors.

I haven’t spoken to the attending who was on staff that night but the other resident I was with that night doesn’t remember it in any clarity (he was called to traumas as part of his rotation but that was ancillary to his ICU -different ICU btw- duties). Basically he said, “yeah that was weird, right?” At the time we were way more concerned with the rising class / new interns (July 1stis a terrifying time to be a patient lol) to make much notice… it always stuck in my head as something super bizarre butit was a long time before I even realized it was Seth Rich. When he arrived he was assigned by our system a trauma number, not a name as his patient ID.I only knew him at that time as Tra### (no freaking way that I remember the actual number).When it came to light who he was a while later I was floored. And terrified.

He had two holes in his right flank and one in the left upper quadrant. In trauma you always assume by protocol that 3 holes = 3 bullets but it was pretty clear that he was shot twice by the trajectory of the bullet (eg, his liver injury). I’ve also seen enough GSWs to know that the media doesn’t get the number right every time.

Yeah, I’m not going to do that. Way too dangerous.

Alright anons it’s been swell but I’ll be gone for the next few hours for regular residency meeting / journal club BS. Take everything you read especially from the MSM with a grain of salt as usual but don’t stop digging.

7 comments:

So the hospital became a police state after Setb Rich was admitted and had undergone surgery and was obviously going to recover from his injuries. Who do you call when the police murder your patient??? This is absolutely unbelievable and a Congressional inquiry into this killing absolutely MUST be done. And if it isn't we may as well pack it in. If you cannot even be safe in a hospital under a doctor's care in ICU there is no safe place anywhere in the U.S. There should be no doubt in anyone's mind at this point who is behind this murder and who had the power to take over a hospital, murder one of its patients,and get clean away with it. There is only one set of people I know of who have been able to pull off this kind of criminal activity repeatedly with NO consequences!!